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From: Richard Yao <ryao@×××××××××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Joshua Kinard <kumba@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Let's redesign the entire filesystem!
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:46:49
Message-Id: 4F62549B.8050407@cs.stonybrook.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Let's redesign the entire filesystem! by Joshua Kinard
1 On 03/15/12 08:40, Joshua Kinard wrote:
2 > I already looked in the tree and nothing really stands out as a suitable
3 > replacement for /dev management. mdev might, but it's part of busybox and
4 > not standalone as far as I know (at least, we don't have an independent
5 > package for it).
6
7 Busybox is installed as part of the system profile on amd64. You can
8 install mdev by doing this:
9
10 ln -s /bin/busybox /sbin/mdev
11
12 There is documentation in the busybox GIT for how to use it:
13
14 http://git.busybox.net/busybox/plain/docs/mdev.txt

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